EMS week Celebration

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> What is your area EMS going to do

> for EMS week this year?

We do a weekend getaway for all public-health and

public-safety workers.

Everyone, including friends and spouses, is

invited. This is a big campout

where we sit around the fire to discuss our

professional and private lives

with colleagues and friends alike. All egos are

subject to removal because

everyone is invited and everyone is equal.

First responders, volunteers and paid personnel

come to rub shoulders, visit

with and learn from some of the top names in EMS

education, from Texas and

around the world. There are 14 hours worth of EMS

continuing education

credits available.

There is the Texas EMS Educator's Summit, an all

day event where the

educators learn from each other and share the

newest and greatest teaching

and learning techniques.

We hold the only official chili competition for

Texas EMS, known as the Gene

Weatherall Memorial Chili Cook-Off.

This year we are staging the first ever skills

competition for Texas EMS-a

half-day event where teams from any service may

pit skills against all

comers. The competition is sponsored by PHI

Helicopters, Philips Medical and

the Zoll Corp., and is hosted by Montgomery

County Hospital District's Dr.

Jay Kovar, and by TechPro Services. The winners

receive Gold, Silver or

Bronze medals and a year of free on-line

continuing education provided by

eGenesis.

There is booty to be had. All day Friday and

Saturday we draw for gate

prizes (can't be door prizes 'cause there ain't

no door!), including EMS

textbooks (some autographed by the authors) and

various EMS gear. Just for

being there you will get a certificate for some

free on-line CE by eGenesis.

Then Saturday afternoon you get to bid in a live

auction for all kinds of

stuff, like a Zoll AED Plus, an ergonomic

dispatcher's chair, training

mannequins, gear bags and more textbooks. This is

a time to take home the

bargains!

For the evenings we invite bands and comedians to

perform live on our stage.

Texas EMS folks need to unwind and de-stress at

times, and this is just the

trick. Friday night we have two Texas Music

bands, then on Saturday we have

Kinky Freidman doing his own brand of Texas

comedy, followed by the

Nightcrawlers playing rock, jazz and blues into

the night

We picked EMS week to hold this event because EMS

is what it is all about.

We call our little event The Gene Weatherall

Memorial EMS Reunion and Chili

Cook-Off, but most folks just call it EMStock.

This will be our 4th year and

I sure hope you'll come.

The event dates are May 20, 21 and 22. Cost at

the gate is $20.00 per

person, and it is well worth it. Hope to see you

there.

www.EMStock.com

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